I hate that the gaming industry is similar to the anime industry where the companies take advantage of those coming into the industry, happy to be working on something that they love.
@@Psyko_Monk3y I remember years ago I wanted to be a game dev because I loved games. So to see all these abuses coming from the top brass within studios I used to respect hurts harder than it should, y'know?
My brother in Christ, Im so glad you made this video because I've been saying this about games for a while now. Im sick of all the dooming when there are tons of great games out there to enjoy that dont get their shine.
I've been reading Of Human Bondage lately and just came across this relevant quote in the past few minutes: "You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent. I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art."
I really love what you're saying. I think ive been focused for too long on working towards making money and not doing it because i love it. This video hit at the right spot. I also completely agree with the idea of 50 people in one place listening to music is insane and a successful venture.
Gaming is in the best spot right now. Decades to choose from. New creative releases. Impressive major releases. Large studios. One person development. The complaints all fall into one category. Franchise failure and development failure. Both can be avoided if you stay away from the few known toxic companies and all their releases..
I was really on board with the video, but the gamergate stuff lost me. I don't think dei has anything to do with why games are bad. (Or why they are good mind you) Just kinda came out of left field to me.
@@redstoneactive6589 Some of the direction of major titles are being pushed in the same direction by certain people, which leads to more stuff being put out by big companies looking the same
@@aeraaureliawashereonce I agree, but I have a feeling we are not thinking about the same people. My answer to that "who" is investors and CEOs. They want to get rich in the safest way possible. So they take no risk. And make crummy games because of that. I don't see how diversity equity and inclusion has anything to do with that.
@@redstoneactive6589 My arguement is mostly based on the visibility of it all. If its pushed by a lot of big names, it FEELS like its all you can see (whether or not its true). I personally am tired of the "same old thing", so in my head all the presentations of DEI stuff gets kinda lumped together wherever it shows up. Probably just a perspective thing on my part
5.55 "Art created under duress and stress doesn't really engender creativity. It doesn't push anything." I don't agree with this. Just two days ago I was watching the documentary Silence = Death, which explores artwork being created by people with AIDS at the height of the crisis. Plenty of the art and pieces shown in the documentary would definitely do what I call 'pushing boundaries' and they were created under a period of intense stress and dread both for the artist's personal situation and the overall social context. Even in the context of videogames you get games like Hyper Light Drifter where a significant amount of the inspiration and motivation behind the game was due to Alx Preston's heart condition. I do agree about the whole "did you do it for the money or for the love of the art" thing. Capitalism do be like that. It sucks. People gotta eat and if you want to eat under capitalism you either have to make stuff that sells or inherit a bunch of money. then you went on about the Sweet Baby Inc stuff and like 😴😴😴. Shoutouts to reddit user [deleted] on r/asmongold for being a credible source.
Disagree. Your argument presents people who are in a very heightened emotional state of being due to their condition. Strong emotions serve as strong stimuli. Duress and need to pump out artistic works while not having any desire to do so and because you are told to so for a paycheck. Or even worse, having a creative vision but just being constantly told your vision is not needed/appreciated and you need to do certain things you might disagree with, that is the problem. You kinda compare apples to oranges here. Also Sweet Baby stuff needs to be talked about every single chance we can, until the company goes bankrupt and all other ESG garbage DEI providers. cheers.
Ah, you know what? I completely forgot about the conditions HLD was made under. Although that feels like a bit of "exception to the rule" territory, I see your point. Gorgeous game, wish I never played it so I can have that first time experience again
"Today is a greatest day, i have so many thing i can make/play/listen/watch" - that all i want to hear from people nowadays. But some of them just complaining about how bad thier life and how good it was ten or fifteen years ago. Душнилы крч the most good time u living - Right now Even if u bad mood or situation. Be more positive and do what u do with passion.
a reminder we live in a capitalist society, this isnt a damnation or exaltation of the idea, but if you think gaming is truly an art form then let us not be surprised that it feels like its vapid because thats what happens when art is commodified, it felt better back in the day because gaming was young and untested the was no millions of dollars back just some nerds in their basements, the industry now makes more money than the box office and people have been complaining about the film industries decline for years now, but much like indie film and kitchen sink films have kept the creative loop going in that industry it will in this one, gaming isn't dying you're just tired of the machine
gaming is absolutely fine, funnily the most problems that gets regurgitated are from titles that are live service/F2P games like valorant and cod the gamers can say vote with your wallet all they want but cod is still a yearly full price top seller with insane mtx monetization, and console makers like Sony and Microsoft keep charging $10 per month just to get access to internet for the game and internet service you already PAID for. Its so bad that gacha games like genshin and star rail is more worth the investment because $5 can get you the gacha currency while if you want to play a multiplayer game on a console, you have to pay $10 monthly on top of the game you purchased.
12:12 Wait are you blaming DEI for games being unfinished? Like I'm sure you said yourself that publishers requiring the same thing over and over because that's what's worked previously, and you said that games are being made to tighter and tighter schedules But it's DEI that makes games a buggy mess? Maybe I'm not understanding your argument there, can you explain in simple terms what DEI has to do with bugs?
14:11 you say it's money that makes people uncomfortable with things? Who are they getting money from? I feel like I'm getting the wrong end of the stick here, I'm bad at taking in ideas because I'm dense in the head, but where does the money come into DEI?
your last point of everything being good or bad seems overly simplistic, it implies that everyone has the same idea for what a good society looks like and everything is either an all good or all bad when it comes to that which isn't correct I don't know what to say to that, it seems intentionally overly simplistic so as to make it not require retroactive thought but you seem to want to think about things so why would you not want to consider whether something that occurred might not be all good or all bad?
@@sandwich2473 There are two primary sources of "samey stuff", as far as I see it. the first are companies that want to make "safe bets" by releasing stuff like what they already have. The second source of "samey stuff" is where the DEI comes in, since it always pushes the same thing every time.
@@sandwich2473 As for where the money comes from, big companies are incentivized by people above even them with large amounts of money or threatening to get hit with slander (or both), which is where that clip of that bald guy saying "You have to force behaviors" comes from. He's a bigwig at Blackrock, who have been putting massive amounts of money into companies with high reach in order to get them to push a very specific set of messages. It's why Alan Wake 2 stopped being about Alan a third of the way through. You can see it with movies as well, with Terminator: Dark Fate and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness as pretty well known examples.
I completly agree with you, there are so many options when it comes to games. So many incredible indi games that i cant even find the time to play them all. and for music you just have to dig deeper, so many sub genres, there is something for everyone. and i say thats why things like elden ring are successful, because its high quality, its has really good content, but first and foremost it does its own thing without running a trend. great video btw :D
I hate that the gaming industry is similar to the anime industry where the companies take advantage of those coming into the industry, happy to be working on something that they love.
@@Psyko_Monk3y I remember years ago I wanted to be a game dev because I loved games.
So to see all these abuses coming from the top brass within studios I used to respect hurts harder than it should, y'know?
My brother in Christ, Im so glad you made this video because I've been saying this about games for a while now. Im sick of all the dooming when there are tons of great games out there to enjoy that dont get their shine.
I've been reading Of Human Bondage lately and just came across this relevant quote in the past few minutes:
"You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent. I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art."
There's a reason why I keep my day job. I don't want to hate what I make due to feeling forced to make it in order to live.
I really love what you're saying. I think ive been focused for too long on working towards making money and not doing it because i love it. This video hit at the right spot.
I also completely agree with the idea of 50 people in one place listening to music is insane and a successful venture.
Gaming is in the best spot right now. Decades to choose from. New creative releases. Impressive major releases. Large studios. One person development.
The complaints all fall into one category. Franchise failure and development failure. Both can be avoided if you stay away from the few known toxic companies and all their releases..
Pretty much, yeah
I was really on board with the video, but the gamergate stuff lost me. I don't think dei has anything to do with why games are bad. (Or why they are good mind you) Just kinda came out of left field to me.
@@redstoneactive6589 Some of the direction of major titles are being pushed in the same direction by certain people, which leads to more stuff being put out by big companies looking the same
@@aeraaureliawashereonce I agree, but I have a feeling we are not thinking about the same people. My answer to that "who" is investors and CEOs. They want to get rich in the safest way possible. So they take no risk. And make crummy games because of that. I don't see how diversity equity and inclusion has anything to do with that.
@@redstoneactive6589 My arguement is mostly based on the visibility of it all. If its pushed by a lot of big names, it FEELS like its all you can see (whether or not its true).
I personally am tired of the "same old thing", so in my head all the presentations of DEI stuff gets kinda lumped together wherever it shows up.
Probably just a perspective thing on my part
5.55 "Art created under duress and stress doesn't really engender creativity. It doesn't push anything."
I don't agree with this. Just two days ago I was watching the documentary Silence = Death, which explores artwork being created by people with AIDS at the height of the crisis. Plenty of the art and pieces shown in the documentary would definitely do what I call 'pushing boundaries' and they were created under a period of intense stress and dread both for the artist's personal situation and the overall social context.
Even in the context of videogames you get games like Hyper Light Drifter where a significant amount of the inspiration and motivation behind the game was due to Alx Preston's heart condition.
I do agree about the whole "did you do it for the money or for the love of the art" thing. Capitalism do be like that. It sucks. People gotta eat and if you want to eat under capitalism you either have to make stuff that sells or inherit a bunch of money.
then you went on about the Sweet Baby Inc stuff and like 😴😴😴. Shoutouts to reddit user [deleted] on r/asmongold for being a credible source.
Disagree. Your argument presents people who are in a very heightened emotional state of being due to their condition. Strong emotions serve as strong stimuli. Duress and need to pump out artistic works while not having any desire to do so and because you are told to so for a paycheck. Or even worse, having a creative vision but just being constantly told your vision is not needed/appreciated and you need to do certain things you might disagree with, that is the problem.
You kinda compare apples to oranges here.
Also Sweet Baby stuff needs to be talked about every single chance we can, until the company goes bankrupt and all other ESG garbage DEI providers.
cheers.
Ah, you know what? I completely forgot about the conditions HLD was made under. Although that feels like a bit of "exception to the rule" territory, I see your point.
Gorgeous game, wish I never played it so I can have that first time experience again
"Today is a greatest day, i have so many thing i can make/play/listen/watch" - that all i want to hear from people nowadays. But some of them just complaining about how bad thier life and how good it was ten or fifteen years ago. Душнилы крч
the most good time u living - Right now Even if u bad mood or situation. Be more positive and do what u do with passion.
It can be made with hopes of success and pure art
Love can fail yet without love a amazing product can't be made
Hey, i agree, lov u
DD2 is trash tho
a reminder we live in a capitalist society, this isnt a damnation or exaltation of the idea, but if you think gaming is truly an art form then let us not be surprised that it feels like its vapid because thats what happens when art is commodified, it felt better back in the day because gaming was young and untested the was no millions of dollars back just some nerds in their basements, the industry now makes more money than the box office and people have been complaining about the film industries decline for years now, but much like indie film and kitchen sink films have kept the creative loop going in that industry it will in this one, gaming isn't dying you're just tired of the machine
That last line sums up things quite well
You literally scared me with the opening black screen. I was afraid my graphics card had died for a second.
Heh
As long as it ain't making high pitched noises, I'm certain your GPU is fine
gaming is absolutely fine, funnily the most problems that gets regurgitated are from titles that are live service/F2P games like valorant and cod
the gamers can say vote with your wallet all they want but cod is still a yearly full price top seller with insane mtx monetization, and console makers like Sony and Microsoft keep charging $10 per month just to get access to internet for the game and internet service you already PAID for. Its so bad that gacha games like genshin and star rail is more worth the investment because $5 can get you the gacha currency while if you want to play a multiplayer game on a console, you have to pay $10 monthly on top of the game you purchased.
@@foodgood5624 One day the CoD fanboys will discover other games
We can only hope and cope
@@foodgood5624 and paid online access through Live and Ultimate and anything like it is trash
wait, are there people who say gaming is dying?
12:12 Wait are you blaming DEI for games being unfinished?
Like I'm sure you said yourself that publishers requiring the same thing over and over because that's what's worked previously, and you said that games are being made to tighter and tighter schedules
But it's DEI that makes games a buggy mess?
Maybe I'm not understanding your argument there, can you explain in simple terms what DEI has to do with bugs?
14:11 you say it's money that makes people uncomfortable with things?
Who are they getting money from? I feel like I'm getting the wrong end of the stick here, I'm bad at taking in ideas because I'm dense in the head, but where does the money come into DEI?
your last point of everything being good or bad seems overly simplistic, it implies that everyone has the same idea for what a good society looks like and everything is either an all good or all bad when it comes to that which isn't correct
I don't know what to say to that, it seems intentionally overly simplistic so as to make it not require retroactive thought but you seem to want to think about things so why would you not want to consider whether something that occurred might not be all good or all bad?
@@sandwich2473 There are two primary sources of "samey stuff", as far as I see it. the first are companies that want to make "safe bets" by releasing stuff like what they already have. The second source of "samey stuff" is where the DEI comes in, since it always pushes the same thing every time.
@@sandwich2473 As for where the money comes from, big companies are incentivized by people above even them with large amounts of money or threatening to get hit with slander (or both), which is where that clip of that bald guy saying "You have to force behaviors" comes from. He's a bigwig at Blackrock, who have been putting massive amounts of money into companies with high reach in order to get them to push a very specific set of messages. It's why Alan Wake 2 stopped being about Alan a third of the way through. You can see it with movies as well, with Terminator: Dark Fate and Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness as pretty well known examples.
can't talk about bad games while you play that boring hell of a game.
@@zerrboy3 👌aight bro
I completly agree with you, there are so many options when it comes to games. So many incredible indi games that i cant even find the time to play them all. and for music you just have to dig deeper, so many sub genres, there is something for everyone. and i say thats why things like elden ring are successful, because its high quality, its has really good content, but first and foremost it does its own thing without running a trend. great video btw :D